Posted on May 27th, 2010 by admin | 2 Comments »
The legislation would leave it up to the Federal Communications Commission to define “unserved” and “underserved.”
Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) told her colleagues there was no need to get “hung up” on the terms, provoking Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) to pound his desk.
The Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee said they weren’t necessarily opposed to the [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
“The combination of interactivity and music speaks to people of all ages today,” he said. “Connecting actual players online in real and virtual worlds via eJamming technology underscores the MTV Networks Music Group’s commitment to bringing our fans cutting-edge experiences.”
Jeff Yapp, MTV executive vice president of program enterprises, said in a statement that MTVN’s decision [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Fuze is a Flash app, and reminds me a bit of Adobe’s own Acrobat Connect, with which it competes (it’s a very good product, too). There are several other products in the space, too, including Vyew, which was recently updated, and the open-source DimDim.
Bonus: What’s CallWave doing in this market?
Prior to releasing this product, [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
“When you get out of the sewers, it’s kind of challenging,” said 21-year-old Alex Lapin.
One tester, 25-year-old Crysta Coburn, said she was happy with the trackpad, and that she tended to be using it when moving around from place to place in the game, but reverted to using keyboard commands when fighting.
“I think it’s really [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
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Google on Thursday announced that it has launched Gmail for Mobile 2.0 for J2ME-supported devices such as the Nokia N95, as well as BlackBerry phones.
As an added bonus, for those who won’t find themselves in signal range, the updated Gmail for Mobile boasts offline support, and lets users compose and read e-mail when there [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Equally important: iTunes, the software with which every iPod user was already familiar. It’s not perfect. I know people who hate it, particularly on the PC. But compare it with the proposed Pre experience, as covered by PC Magazine:
You can drag and drop it over from your PC using USB mass storage, or buy [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Company executives said Wednesday that it expected fourth-quarter profit to come in between 25 cents to 27 cents per share, compared with the 39 cents it reported during the same period in 2007.
Online auction giant eBay lowered its fourth-quarter revenue expectations and reported third-quarter numbers that met analyst forecasts.
San Jose, Calif.-based eBay warned last [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
The high-tech industry may experience a bubble every few years, but it doesn’t exist in one. Bad news for the overall economy inevitably hurts the tech sector. Here’s how it could happen this time:
Can tech spending be next? It’s safe to assume tech spending in the financial industry will be more than low, but what about other industries? With big software automation projects long since finished, many companies may put new technology in the “nice to have” rather
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
“It’s a transformation of our software and a transformation of our strategy,” said Ray Ozzie, a computing industry pioneer who now serves as Microsoft’s chief software architect. (For a play-by-play account of Ozzie’s speech, see “PDC 2008: Windows Azure live blog.”)
The company itself plans to offer businesses the option of running over the Internet the kinds of software that have traditionally run on a company’s own servers. Microsoft already sells its Exchange corpo